06 Nov 08 Forum

Hi All

Am looking for opinions/options on power control for my server.

Initially I set-up and used the srvrpowernctrl plugin and it worked well, however now I have daily cronjobs which run so I turned off the plugin as I didn't want those jobs to be impacted if the players went idle.

Can anyone suggest a good approach for power control ? I would like the server to suspend during idle times however don't want the cron jobs (currently scheduled around midnight) to not run as the server is suspended. I'm not sure if there is anything out there that would fit my requirements or maybe I've missed a setting in srvrpowercntrl

Any help would be appreciated

Ian

Post edited 1:56 pm – August 20, 2009 by socistep

Hi Si,

Thanks for the reply.

My only concern is if one of the scripts take a long time, mainly the flac2mp3 script can take a while if there is a lot of flac files to convert.

My current thinking is to have the machine wake at 4am, with the idle switch-off parameter set to 2.5 hours, my alarm goes off during the week at 615 and I listen to music through to 8am, adding 2 1/2 hours to that would mean 6.5 hours from 4am for scripts to run …I'm thinking in the majority of time this would give enough time for the cronjobs to run.

2.5 hours is probably longer then I would have liked from an idle perspective however this way gives enough time to ensure jobs are running.

What do you think ?

Ian

ps not sure what to do on weekends maybe I just set the cronjobs to run mon-fri